C. parroti (Kieffer 1922)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides parroti Kieffer 1922: 502. TL Algeria
(Kieffer 1922: 502. ♀, desc)
(Kieffer 1923: 676. ♂, desc, figs, pupa)
(Edwards 1926: 405. Notes)
(Edwards 1939: 32, 132. notes, figs)
(Kettle & Lawson 1952: 458. Pupa)
(Campbell & Pelham-Clinton 1960: 233. ♂, ♀, desc, keys, figs)
(Gutsevich 1960: 60. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Coluzzi & Kremer 1964: 63. Notes, record, Italy)
(Kremer 1966: 236. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Chaker 1981: 45. ♂, ♀, notes, figs. Tunisia)
(Boorman 1986: 258. Notes)
(Glukhova 1989: 376. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wings are similar to those of C. stigma; they are milky-white (clear in slide-mounted specimens) with the second radial cell black. It may be separated from C. stigma by the greyish mesonotum with numerous black dots; the blackish tips of the halteres and the almost straight posterior margin of the ninth tergite in the male. The female AR is 0.92-1.06; the SD is 3,8-10. There is a single spermatheca, as shown. The figure of the wing is from Chaker (1981); that of the spermatheca from Glukhova (1989) and the genitalia from Edwards (1939).